Systematic review

I'm Sunvei Lim and I'm delighted to be joined here today by Dr Ariel Roxburgh, a clinical psychologist from the Monash Addiction Research Centre of the Eastern Health Clinical School at Monash University and Turning Point, which is part of Eastern Health.

Ari is here today to speak with me about this paper titled Controlled Breathing and Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Substance Use-Related Outcomes, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Welcome to the podcast, Ari.

Hi, Senbei.

And for those that are keen, please do have a look at the article.

It's called, the title, Endometriosis and the Microbiome, a Systematic Review.

And we're also working in this space academically, doing a study on it as well.

But that's to be seen.

It's wild.

In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Bidirectional Association Between Allergic Rhinitis and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

And this is a study looking at the relationship between allergic rhinitis, which is more commonly known as hay fever, and ADHD.

Yeah, so we have a meta-analysis on this, which basically means that so many people wanted to know this, that they did a ton of different papers on it, and then somebody summarized all of those papers, particularly looking at the relationship between not just ADHD being connected to hay fever, but also whether hay fever is connected to the development of ADHD.

The third article down was titled, Cluster Analysis of Unexplained Cardiac Arrest in Young Adults.

A Call for Systematic Review.

The lead author was Dennis Salinas.

I clicked it.

So the question here is actually quite interesting if you think about it.

If you calculate a news in trauma patients before they reach hospital, does it perform better than the much simpler shock index at identifying patients who are going to do badly? Well, I've got a paper for you this month, and it is titled, Pre-Hospital National Early Warning Score Outperforms Shock Index in Predicting Mortality and Resource Utilisation in Adult Trauma, a Systematic Review.

There you go, giving the results away straight from the off.

But...

Oh, dear.

So this was published in Injury by Alice Tolich and colleagues.

And what did they do? Well, as the title alludes to, it was a systematic review of clinical trials and observational studies between 2015-2025, specifically those which reported the relationship between pre-hospital shock index and early warning score in adult patients assessed in that pre-hospital setting.

Now, they excluded paediatric studies and studies which looked solely at ED patients, those that only focused on isolated body region trauma, and if they modified versions of those scoring systems, they pushed them to one side and didn't include them.

But also, you don't need the previous one for today because they are similar topics, but different topics.

Now, today is hopefully going to be a little shorter and a little more concise, a little more punchy, because essentially we're going to go through one big, hefty research paper, which is a systematic review.

And it was published this month, August 7th, 2026.

And It is called, let me read it out to you.

It is called Effects of Listening to Music During Aerobic Exercise or Performance, Fatigue and Psychological Responses in Physically Active Adults, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

And that was just published.

And I thought that was crazy timing because of obviously the previous episode that we did and Yeah, here we are.

So yeah, I guess good luck to anyone who's running and or congratulations for doing it.

My name is Jacques Strauss, and this is an IJLCD edition in which we talk to authors of papers published in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.

Today, I'm speaking with Shelby Lim and Jared Lum about a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the relationship between language capacity in childhood and mental health outcomes in adulthood.

We know that children and young people with language difficulties can be at greater risk of social, emotional, and educational challenges.

But what happens later when those children become adults? And what might this mean for speech and language therapists, mental health services, and the way support is designed? This paper brings together evidence on anxiety and depression in adults who had language problems earlier in development.

So what was the central question you were trying to answer?

The central question we're trying to answer for this meta-analysis is, again, we know that children with language difficulties are at higher risk of anxiety and depression, um, but we don't know if this risk continues into adulthood.

So it's essentially a systematic review trying to quantify the strength, um, of that relationship using a meta-analysis.

So because we know language difficulties is a condition that doesn't just disappear when they become adults, so it becomes really, I think, important to know if this risk persist.

Today, we are looking at the paper by Enjitama and colleagues.

It was published in Open Heart in August 2026, and it’s titled Walking a Tightrope: The Safety and Efficacy of Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation Patients With Prior Intracranial Hemorrhage, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

It is a fundamentally important paper for our field.

I, I agree.

The findings address a critical evidence gap in a population systematically underrepresented in randomized controlled trials, but they do not establish definitive causality.

Right.

The researchers conducted this systematic review in strict accordance with the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses twenty-twenty statement.

I see.

So I've got four extra articles for you today.

The first one's titled Physical Activity-Based Interventions and Emotional Regulation in Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, a Systematic Review.

This systematic review synthesized evidence from six randomized control trials on how structured physical activity programs can support emotional regulation capabilities in autistic children.

The findings highlight the potential for movement-based approaches as part of a comprehensive intervention strategies for supporting emotional regulation in autism.

But like most research we reviewed, there were methodological concerns that mean we need to interpret the results with some caution.